JOLLY GRAMMAR LEVELS 1 & 2

Parts of speech, verb tenses, prefixes, suffixes, punctuation, sentence structure, dictionary and thesaurus skills.

About this course

This course teaches the structure part of the English language in an active, systematic, multi-sensory and child-friendly way. This includes parts of speech, spelling, punctuation and more.

Description

This course will teach the broader skills for learners to be able to communicate effectively:

· Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling will be systematically and incrementally taught,

· Phonic knowledge will be reinforced and extended,

· Vocabulary will be expanded,

· Comprehension improved,

· Parts of speech and verb tenses introduced,

· Morphemes such as prefixes and suffixes will be clearly taught,

· Word meaning such as comparatives and superlatives clearly taught.

The teaching is active and multi-sensory, with colours and actions for parts of speech.

Course Goals

· Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge.

• Teach spelling systematically.

• Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.

• Introduce parts of speech and verb tenses.

• Introduce morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes.

• Enable the children to analyse and parse text.

• Introduce syntax and sentence structure.

• Develop the children’s use of punctuation.

• Develop the children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

· Nouns, Proper Nouns, Common Nouns

· Pronouns, Grammatical Persons, Personal Pronouns

· Verbs, Conjugating Verbs, Tenses

· Adjectives, Adverbs, Possessive Adjectives

· Homophones, Articles, Sentences, Compound Words

· Improving Vocabulary and Using a Dictionary

· Speech Marks, Questions, Conjunctions, Prepositions

· Prefixes, Suffixes, Comparatives and superlatives

· Commas in Lists, Exclamation Marks

· PARSING: Identifying the parts of speech in sentences.

· Short Vowels & Consonant Doubling.